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11 Switch games with local split screen, from It Takes Two to Garfield Kart. Team Sonic Racing eShop code at €8.24 (€8.94 with fees), and every price compared.
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Eleven Nintendo Switch games that two or more people can play on one console, each with their own slice of the TV. Seven of them are racing games, because that is where split screen has survived best, and the other four are adventures you play through together, led by It Takes Two.
The starting point was every Switch game in our catalogue whose PC version carries Steam's «Split Screen» tag: 52 of them had at least two offers in stock this morning. A Steam tag says nothing about the Switch port, so each pick had to have split screen on Switch too. That ruled out Resident Evil 5 and 6, Sonic Racing CrossWorlds and the MotoGP games, where we couldn't confirm it, and Overcooked and Unravel Two, which are local co-op on one shared screen. Rocket League went too: it's free to play, and all the stores sell for it are accounts. Scores are Steam user reviews of the PC version, shown only where Steam has them. Prices include the coupon where there is one, with the store's payment fee in brackets.
If any sofa game will do, split or not, we have a separate list of local co-op games on Switch. Only LEGO The Incredibles appears in both.
Playing the story together: It Takes Two, two LEGO games and The Escapists 2
It Takes Two, from Hazelight, can't be played alone at all. Cody and May, a couple about to divorce, are turned into dolls, and every level hands each of them different tools, so the two halves of the screen really are two different games running side by side. Steam has no review data for it in our catalogue, so no score here. The cheapest eShop code is at Eneba for €26.99 with code Gocdkeys10 (€29.86 with fees), a little above its usual €25 (that median is without fees); the lowest we've seen was €15.99 in July. Key4Games sells an account for €13.81 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€14.59 with fees). An account means you log into someone else's Nintendo account: the game never goes on yours.
LEGO City Undercover puts you in the shoes of Chase McCain, a policeman going undercover across an open LEGO city. The Switch version lets a second player join in split-screen co-op. Gamivo has the eShop code for €12.40 with code GCDKGamivo (€13.82 with fees); Kinguin's account is barely cheaper at €12.05 with code NOVGOC10 (€13.36 with fees), which makes the code the obvious choice.
LEGO The Incredibles follows the Parr family through both films, for two players. 89% of 1,615 Steam reviews of the PC version are positive. The code costs €8.45 with code GCDKGamivo (€9.74 with fees) at Gamivo, the account €4.72 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€5.15 with fees) at Key4Games.
The Escapists 2 is about getting out of prison: you learn the guards' routine, craft tools from whatever you can steal and plan the break with up to three friends. It plays in split screen on one Switch, and 90% of 26,582 Steam reviews are positive. There's no eShop code in stock today, only a Key4Games account at €9.79 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€10.42 with fees); the Nintendo eShop sells it too, but we don't track its price.
Kart racing with Sonic and Garfield
Team Sonic Racing is the best deal on the list this morning. Races are team events: you share items with your two teammates and get a boost by riding in their slipstream, and up to four people can play on one screen. Driffle sells the eShop code for €8.24 with code GOCDKEYS10 (€8.94 with fees), 28% below its usual price; across 726 days of price history it has only been cheaper on six. The Key4Games account is €6.41 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€6.91 with fees).
Garfield Kart Furious Racing is the cheap one. It's a straightforward kart racer with Garfield and his gang, and 88% of 10,514 Steam reviews say it does the job. Difmark has the eShop code for €3.86 with code Gocdkeys (€4.03 with fees), and we have never recorded it lower. Key4Games' account is €3.03 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€3.40 with fees).
Retro arcade racing for up to four players
Horizon Chase Turbo borrows the look and feel of early-90s racers, with more than 100 tracks across over 40 cities and local multiplayer for four. It's the best-reviewed game on the list, 92% of 5,972 positive on Steam. Only accounts are on sale: Key4Games at €12.33 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€13.05 with fees).
Hotshot Racing goes for flat-shaded, low-polygon cars, drifting to fill your boost bar, and four-player split screen. No Steam score in our data. Gameboost has the code for €5.49 with code GCDK13 (€5.75 with fees), Key4Games the account for €3.96 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€4.36 with fees).
Victory Heat Rally is pixel art with 12 drivers and split screen for up to four. 88% of 611 Steam reviews are positive. Again only an account: €11.91 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€12.62 with fees) at Key4Games.
Hot Wheels Unleashed and MX vs ATV All Out, two at a time
Hot Wheels Unleashed, by Milestone, races die-cast cars on orange track full of loops, and has a track editor. Split screen is for two. The eShop code at Eneba costs €11.78 with code Gocdkeys10 (€13.34 with fees), but that's higher than on most days we've tracked, so a price alert on Hot Wheels Unleashed makes sense. The account at Key4Games is €7.26 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€7.79 with fees).
MX vs ATV All Out mixes motocross bikes and quads, with Supercross, Nationals and open areas, and two-player split screen. 81% of 1,341 Steam reviews are positive. It's account only: €5.98 with code GOCDKEYS16 (€6.46 with fees) at Key4Games, a price it has only beaten on one day.
eShop code or account on Switch
An eShop code is redeemed in the Nintendo eShop and the game stays on your Nintendo account for good. Check the region on the offer matches your account before paying. An account is cheaper because you're using someone else's login, and if that account is closed or recovered you lose access. Where both exist, as with the LEGO City Undercover Switch key at 35 cents more than the account, go for the code. For the Xbox side of the same topic, see the best split-screen games on Xbox.
Prices checked on the morning of 11 November.
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